Adventures in Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating
Answered Mostly with Questions I hate tofu and sprouts. Where do you get protein? What’s the best meat substitute? What do you do when you eat out? What supplements do you need? What about fish? What about honey? Where do you get iron (or most other nutrients)? How can I...
Salad dressing is my most requested recipe. It is an all-purpose condiment that I like on Brussels sprouts and baked potatoes, or as a dip for crusty whole-grain sourdough bread, as well as on salads. Chia seeds soak up nine times their weight in water, making a gelatinous basis that...
Salad is something you really don’t need a recipe for, but people have asked me what I put in it. Salads can be very simple, but I like mine to contain lots of colors and contrasting textures. Besides pleasing my aesthetics, they are healthier that way. Unfortunately, restaurant salads these...
One of the most persistent myths about nutrition is that we put on weight by consuming more calories than we burn. Were this true, it would follow that the only healthy way to lose weight is some combination of eating fewer calories and exercising more. While this approach certainly works...
It’s October 2010, and I have been eating whole food, plant-based for almost one year. I’m spending a weekend at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo, which is held at the Warner Center Marriott. It is my first time there and I am glad to meet some people who eat healthy like...
Experiment with your cooking. See how far a recipe can evolve through many generations of trial-and-error and small, incremental changes. Kathryn and I have pancakes for breakfast on Sunday mornings, while we watch Dr. Greger’s latest videos from the past week. We started with the recipe for “Larry’s Sunday Buckwheat...
Filling: ¼ cup agave nectar plus up to ¼ cup erythritol for tart fruit 2 Tbsp cornstarch 5 cups sliced fresh peaches, pears, nectarines, apples or fruit of choice, or frozen berries in any combination 1 cup water ground cinnamon and nutmeg or pumpkin pie spice to taste Combine sweetener...
Dear Dr. G, I appreciate the efficiency with which you prescribed Lipitor and baby aspirin in reaction to my cholesterol numbers, and the streamlined system by which Kaiser encourages me to comply with your prescriptions. Believe me, I am quite disturbed by the numbers, total cholesterol 216 mg/dL and LDL...
I am very averse to taking medicine, and since reading The China Study I have put away all my supplements except for B-12. I have seen and experienced good Western medicine for things like bacterial infections and broken bones. But I have also seen questionable medicine for many other things....
The old management maxim holds that we can improve only what we measure. While there is a useful truth in there, the downside is that it can lead to obsession with measurement. Worse, we become tempted to affect the measurement itself in ways that are not consistent with the value...
